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A VIEW OF OLD LONDON

AS IT APPEARED IN 1560

George Whitelaw and Charles Evans

London 1851

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My edition of this book is the framework for about forty extra plates derived from a range of unusual sources before 1851.

TOP ROW

1. A curious pump in the Leather Seller's hall, Bishopsgate, The mermaid figure sprays alcohol from her breats on festive days.Engraving 1791

2. Hick's Hall, Clerkenwell

3. Old Houses, St.John's Street

4. Bartholemew's Hospital

5. Principal Gate of Bartholemew's Hospital

6. Interior of the Guildhall

7. Bastion on London Wall, 1816

 

SECOND ROW

1. London Wall and St.Giles, Cripplegate.

2. map dedicated to archers by Witt Hole, Finsbury Fields North.

3. part of the Priory, Holy Trinity Aldgate 1807.

4. Ald gate and Bishop's Gate

5. Custom House

6. The Custom House, London

 

THIRD ROW

1. Whittington's Alms Houses, Highgate (from Dugdale's England and Wales)

2. Whittingdon's House, West Street, Crooked Friars.

3. St Paul's cathedral (two versions)

4. Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street.

5. Temple Bar from the Strand

6. St.Mary Le Savoy, a monument over the door in the Old Vestry, 1791

 

BOTTOM ROW

1. Somerset House (from Dugdale's)

2. A plan of London and westminster, showing the Forts of 1643, 1749

3. Buckingham Watergate

4. The crypt of St.Saviour's, from the Gentleman's Magazine 1835

 

MISCELLANEOUS LONDON IMAGERY FROM MY PRINTS

 

The Tower of London

St James, Westminster Hall,Charing Cross

The Great Fire of London

St.Thomas' Hospital